Posted Jan 19, 2019, 2:14 PM
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Some news from the north!
Was in Edmundston over the holidays, a new Yamaha dealership is under construction at Grey Rock, pronature, pop shoes and go sport have moved in the strip mall. Construction of the hotel seems to have halted for the winter.
Few new business in town, battery shop on rue Canada, jack and jill pool renovations are doing good. My biggest surprise was Rossignol transport in Saint Jacques industrial park, leaps and bounds of what it used to be. New modern building, a fleet of 60 plus truck that I could see in the parking, and new trucks, not the old rigs holding together with duck tape they used to have.
Could see in Saint Leonard the Irving pellet plant in construction next to the sawmill.
Drove by Campbellton on the way back, Canadian tire is expanding, I believe Giant Tiger was still being worked on. Zenabis will soon expand their operations again, hopefully this help the area.
Dalhousie wel... would be nice to see something positive happen there soon, the town needs it. Seems like there is interest in the old tank farm of the defuct power station, hopefully this goes well for them.
Belledune, no news on the proposed projects. I presume we will see more movement once the spring arrives if the projects are still on track.
Bathurst, looks like 2019 is going to be another good year on the retail sector. Women’s sleepware store opening soon, Marshall’s in March, Pop shoes will set up a Go sport in their store (going to be tight in there, i expect a move if things go well) The old Aristide building downtown will be entirely renovated to accomodate Kaffeine expresso bar, possible new 3 story building downtown, Kfc movin to Vanier, Eclipse moved to a new location in the mall and what looks like some aditional work going on a few units at the mall and an endless flow of un-confirmed rumours of things to come. The city is busier on the week ends, more people come to shop, things are looking good! Would be awesome if we could get good news in the industrial sector.
Renovations at the Bathurst airport are mostly done, only minor things to finish, it will now be able to easily handle q-400.
As for the Miramichi, have not been in a while, there was a pellet plant to be constructed, heard on a few spaces to be divided to accomodate new businesses, they had several solid steady years, hopefully this trend continues and that the studies on both downtowns bring new development in them.
As for the acadian peninsula, other than the Bas Caraquet ship building companies puting ships out, its been a quiet year.
Cheers folks!
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